Category: Business and management

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Assignment Two: Visual Rhetoric Brochure based on Interview

A brochure is an informative business document that promotes a service, company, organization, or product. The audience for a brochure is prospective stakeholders. What separate a brochure from other business documents is its use of visuals to assist with communicating and supporting a central theme or topic.

Visual rhetoric refers to designing and selecting visuals that communicate meaning to support the text in a document. It involves using visuals that communicate the same message to various audiences with diverse backgrounds and cultures.

An interview is a planned and structural conversation between a person asking questions and a person(s) answering those questions. The main purpose of an interview is to discover details about a topic. You are incorporating visual rhetoric and an interview to compose and design the visual rhetoric brochure.

Based on the short video what are the two factors that are considered to influence the increases in the price of oil that were experienced in 2007 and 2008?

Globally speaking, what are some factors that you can identify that have contributed to the sharp increase in oil prices that we have experienced over the last 3 months?

Which one of those factors do you think would have the strongest relationship with oil prices?

Do you think that any of the factors that you identified have a strong relationship with each other as opposed to only the price of oil? If so, name two of the factors that you identified that would have a strong relationship with each other.

Please make sure to label the answers with the number of the question

Your reflections on the book should include an application of the author’s perspective, the text book and your personal vision on management. Here’s a link to the book . I’ve uploaded the instructions.

Caribbean financial systems operate within unique structural constraints: small open economies,

shallow capital markets, dependence on banking intermediation, exposure to global interest rate

cycles, and regulatory pressures such as de-risking and correspondent banking withdrawal.

This assignment requires you to critically evaluate how the structure of Caribbean financial

systems, behaviour of financial institutions, and interest rate dynamics shape financial stability and

economic outcomes.

You must analyse a real Caribbean financial development, policy episode, or structural challenge.

Select ONE Caribbean Case

Choose one of the following:

1. Correspondent Banking / De-Risking in the Caribbean

2. Monetary Tightening and Interest Rate Transmission in a Caribbean Economy

3. Bank-Dominated Financial Systems vs Capital Market Development

4. Credit Union Expansion and Financial Inclusion

5. Housing Finance and Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Interest Rates

6. Financial Stability Response to a Global Shock (e.g., COVID-19, inflation cycle)

Your case must be country-specific (e.g., Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, ECCU,

etc.).

Assignment Structure

Part A Structure of the Caribbean Financial System (Unit 1)

(Approx. 800900 words)

Using your selected case:

Describe the structure of the financial system

Role of banks vs capital markets

Direct vs indirect finance dominance

Key financial instruments involved

Evidence of asymmetric information or financial frictions How the structure influenced the outcome of the case

Focus on mechanisms and system behaviour, not description.

Part B Financial Institutions, Intermediation, and Risk (Unit 2)

(Approx. 800900 words)

Critically evaluate:

Role of commercial banks and/or credit unions

Role of insurance, pension, or investment intermediaries (if relevant)

Risk dynamics (credit, liquidity, systemic, regulatory, or external)

Whether financial institutions stabilized or amplified risk

Regulatory and policy response

Demonstrate institutional analysis, not narrative.

Part C Interest Rate Dynamics and Economic Behaviour (Unit 3)

(Approx. 9001,000 words)

Analyse:

How interest rates influenced your case

Transmission to borrowing, investment, housing, or credit

Apply Classical / Loanable Funds / Liquidity Preference theory

Yield curve or monetary policy implications (if applicable)

Evaluate whether interest rate policy improved stability or increased vulnerability

This section must integrate theory + real financial behaviour.

Part D Critical Reflection: Caribbean System Resilience

(Approx. 600800 words) This is the highest-level thinking section.

Evaluate:

Structural strengths of Caribbean financial systems

Structural weaknesses exposed by your case

Role of banking dominance vs capital market depth

Vulnerability to global interest rate cycles ONE major systemic risk facing Caribbean finance today

ONE policy or institutional reform to strengthen system resilience

Your conclusion must show independent judgment and synthesis.

Technical Requirements

Length: 3,200 3,800 words

Academic referencing required

Must use real Caribbean institutional, policy, or market evidence

Use charts/tables where relevant

Descriptive answers will score poorly

Evidence of independent reasoning expected

Marking Rubric (40%)

Criteria Weight

Financial System Structural Analysis 20%

Institutional & Risk Evaluation 20%

Application of Interest Rate Theory 25%

Critical Reflection & Policy Insight 15%

Evidence & Real Caribbean Context 10%

Writing Quality & Structure 10%

What High-Distinction Work Will Demonstrate

Deep understanding of Caribbean financial systems

Integration of theory with real institutional behaviour

Strong causal reasoning (not description)

Use of evidence and policy insight

Independent and critical interpretation

Clear analytical structureAcademic Integrity Note

This assignment requires:

Country-specific analysis

Application of theory to real institutional behaviour

Critical judgment and synthesis

Generic or purely descriptive responses will not meet the required analytical standard

Emotional intelligence (EI) is often seen as a superpower in the workplace. It helps us build better relationships, resolve conflicts, and lead teams. But as with any power, how it is used it matters! (EI) can be used for positive influence or, if misused, to manipulate people and situations for personal gain.

Questions for Discussion:

Part 1: Ethical and Unethical Uses of Emotional Intelligence

Describe how an employee with high (EI) could use that skill in ways that are either helpful or harmful in the workplace.

Imagine a scenario: A manager uses (EI) to motivate their team. Contrast this with a case where someone uses (EI) skills to manipulate colleagues for personal advantage (i.e., securing a promotion, spreading rumors, or gaining trust for selfish reasons).

Share a real or hypothetical example (from a job, school, or media story).

Part 2: Rank the Four Dimensions of (EI) for Influence

The four components of (EI) are:

• Self-awareness
• Self-management
• Social awareness
• Relationship management

If someone wanted to influence or "trick" others in an organizational setting, how might each dimension of (EI) play a role?

Rank these dimensions from most to least useful for manipulation and explain your reasoning for each.

Organizational Behavior A Skill Building Approach Third Edition

By: Christopher P. Neck; Jeffery D. Houghton; Emma L. Murray

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; 3rd edition (2024)

APPLICATION ASSIGNMENT (Current Event)

**Pay attention to the Current Event Grading Rubric found in the Resources folder in Getting Started section.**

This application assignment requires you to share a business related article from the past 6 months that describes your view of our assigned course topic(s) for the week. In other words, your view may explain the topic’s effect, relevance, importance, non-significance, etc. in workplace behavior. This assignment should consist of three distinct paragraphs. In the first paragraph you will summarize the article you chose. In the second paragraph you will clearly identify and discuss the course topic(s) relevant to the article. In the third and final paragraph you should discuss your views about the topic and what the article stated.

It is imperative to choose a concept being covered in this module. It is also important not to copy material from other related assignments or directly from the article itself–use proper citations and rewrite important components into your own words. Concepts and verbatim material will receive a zero.

Current Event:

• News story must be from a credible source within the last 6 months with appropriate citation.
• Context must be provided on why the story is immediately relevant to the topics being covered.
• Responses which are purely opinion and anecdotal are not considered to be substantive in nature.
• Original news story from an external source, one additional external source, and your textbook are required (Minimum: These THREE citations).
• Be sure to include the required textbook citation both in-text and on your References page.

this is the part b to the project that we recently did..

Project Part B — Narrated PowerPoint Presentation Submission

Due Mar 5 by 11:59pm Points 15 Submitting a file upload Available until Mar 5 at 11:59pm

ATTN: This assignment is due on Friday March 5, 2026.

This is the Last and most important part of your Marketing Plan. Use a PowerPoint for this Part with built-in voice over slides.

Cover Sheet — Use AI to generate a cover that shows the project company’s offering and the Logo of the business or at least the name of the company.

Brief overview of the focus of your Marketing Campaign

Brief introduction of the company.

Marketing Research Efforts

Choose one product/product line you would like to focus

Justify your choice after you reviewed at least 30 reviews/feedback collected from any social media platforms.

Review all the textual information you collected and present your conclusion of the overall sentiments from the consumers toward the product/feedback you chose.

Sentiment Analysis is required using AI – Tools. Word-Cloud generated via AI tools is required!

Design the Promotion Mix (Ch. 13)

Follow figure 13.8 to develop your own advertising/marketing messages

at least one message for each media outlet of your choice, as specified in Part B.

Communication Tools

Promotional Materials (need to be “Originally Created”)

Communication channels to be used (refer to Figure 13.10)

AI tools are required to generate Marketing Materials. Include the AI generated contents.

Media Schedule (Refer to the Figure 13.11 and tailor it to a 7-day campaign timeline, indicating when to launch on each layer of your promotion mix.

Be specific.

Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Communication Program (Ch. 13)

how to measure the effectiveness of your proposed promotion mix

for each activity

Marketing Budget Plan

Small company $200 – 500 for 1 week marketing campaign.

Big company $500 – 2,000 for 1 week marketing campaign.

Conclusion/Summary of your promotional plan

Submit your data file along with your PowerPoint.

AI Tools must be used to generate visual marketing materials however, using AI tools to generate your slide content, such as promotion timeline, etc. is not allowed in this assignment. Always be specific in your proposed marketing strategies/promotional activities, details are necessary.

here is the book again

Marketing: Real People, Real Choices, 12e

Michael Solomon, Greg Marshall, Elnora Stuart, Jane Burkhalter, Brad Carlson

book uploaded. this week we read chapter 3 and 4 for reference. This week we have learned about job order analysis. Select only ONE of the following prompts and answer all the questions listed, for that prompt, thoroughly (minimum of 250 words). If you are required to use references, you must also give proper credit and if necessary a separate references list may be required. All references must be formatted in APA 7th Edition (Go to APA for more information). Consider the activities of a medical clinic in your area. (city: Montebello, ca) Is a job order costing system appropriate for the clinic? Explain Identify as many factors as possible to lead you to conclude that the clinic uses a job order costing system. Explain how the factors apply to a job order costing system.